Shin is an illustrator based in New York. Moon holds an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in Illustration as Visual Essay. She currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts and Fashion Institute of Technology. She has received accolades from different illustration publications including 3x3 Magazine, Society of Illustrators, and Communication Arts.
Email — shinyeon.moon@gmail.com
Instagram — @shinnyoni
Literary agent — Tanya McKinnon (McKinnon Literary)
SELECTED PRESS
Geeks OUT, January 2024
Voyage LA, January 2024
Canvas Rebel, December 2023
Zócalo Sketchbook, September 2023
Shoutout LA, December 2022
Creative Boom, June 2021
Art Spiel: Artists on Coping, May 2019
Forge Art Magazine, Issue 19, 2017
Posit: a Journal of Literature and Art, Issue 4, 2014
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
STATIC, sevenminusseven gallery, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands / 2016
NOKORI, Studio Kura Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan / 2015
MOYU, Ouchi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY / 2014
Chew the Cud, Micro Art Space Gallery, Cleveland, OH / 2014
CLIENTS INCLUDE:
A is For, Carhartt, GrumpyBert, Heggerty Phonetic Awareness, Inner Ocean Records, Katonah Museum of Art, Little White Lies Magazine, Oprah Daily, Re-entry Rocks, Sojourners Magazine, The Unionist, WNW Magazine
HONORS:
Merit Award, ADC 103 Annual Award / 2024
Runner-Up, Creative Quarterly 75 / 2024
Self-Promotion Merit Awards, iJungle / 2024
Award of Excellence, SOI MoccaFest / 2023
Jury, SVA Alumni Scholarship Awards / 2023 & 2024
Shortlist, Communication Arts / 2023
Jury, Society of Illustrators Competition (Uncommissioned) / 2022
Jury, William H. Ely Illustration Senior Thesis / 2021
Honorable Mention, 3x3 Magazine No. 17 / 2020
Honorable Mention, Muddy Colors Scholarship / 2017
Chosen, American Illustration 36 and 37 / 2017-2018
Runner-Up, Creative Quarterly 48 / 2017
Award of Excellence, Communication Arts / 2017
Communication Arts, Illustration Annual 58 / 2017
Paula Rhodes Award / 2017
SVA Alumni Society Scholarship Award / 2017
Arrowmont Arts and Crafts Residency (Awarded) / 2013
GUEST LECTURES & BOOK EVENTS:
AAPI Children’s Literary Festival, Asia Society, NY / 2024
Books Are Magic (for Laolao’s Dumplings), New York, NY / 2024
Books of Wonder (panel, for Laolao’s Dumplings), New York, NY / 2024
Yu & Me Books (for Laolao’s Dumplings), New York, NY / 2023
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY / 2023
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY / 2023, 2024
SVA MFA Info Session (Zoom) / 2023
Pratt, New York, NY / 2023
Queens College, Queens, NY / 2022, 2023
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Talk to Me, FIT Feldman Center, NY, NY / 2025
MoCCA Fest, Metropolitan Pavilion, NY, NY / 2025
Back to the Unknown: Over the Garden Wall 10th Anniversary Tribute Show, Gallery Nucleus, CA /2024
Holiday Market, SOI, NY, NY / 2024
Shimmer, Ginza 7th Building Gallery, Tokyo, Japan / 2024
Among Friends, Metaphor Projects, BK, NY / 2024
MoCCA Arts Festival, Metropolitan Pavilion, NY, NY / 2024
Red Envelope Show, Harman Projects, NY / 2024
Holiday Craft Fair, Society of Illustrators, NY, NY / 2023
43rd Annual Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators, NY, NY / 2023
Chuseok Market, Hana House, BK, NY / 2023
MoCCA Arts Festival, Metropolitan Pavilion, NY, NY / 2023
Red Envelope Show, myplasticheart, Brooklyn, NY / 2023
Global Healthcare Illustration Awards, London / 2022
Korean American Art Auction, Korean American Artist Collective / 2022
Sounds About Riso, Lucky Risograph, Brooklyn, NY / 2022
Power in Numbers, Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra, CA / 2022
Among Friends, Equity Gallery, NY, NY / 2022
50/50 for Ruston Skatepark, Ruston, CA / 2022
Salut! 7, Nucleus Portland Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon / 2022
Red Envelope Show, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY / 2022
Illustrators 64, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY / 2022
End is Nigh, Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis, MN / 2021
Dumpster Fire Customs Show, myplasticheart, Brooklyn, NY / 2021
Red Envelope Show (Online), GrumpyBert / 2021
Salut! 6, Nucleus Portland Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon / 2021
Booklyn Artists’ Book Fair, 2nd Annual, Greenwich Village, NY / 2020
Red Envelope Show, Brooklyn, NY / Los Angeles, CA / 2020
Comic Arts Brooklyn, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY / 2019
Salut! 4, Nucleus Portland Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon / 2019
Illustration Exhibit, The Art League Gallery, Alexandria, VA / 2019
GoWest!, designforum Wien, Museumquartier, Vienna, Austria / 2018
Cardboard City, Design Walk Atlantic Ave BID, Grumpy Bert, Brooklyn, NY / 2018
Stephen King Show, Gallery1988 (West), Los Angeles, CA / 2017
in flagrante delicto, St. Thomas, USVI / 2017
Salut! 2, Nucleus Portland Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon / 2017
Ornament, OffLine at Central Booking, New York, NY / 2016
Salut!, Nucleus Portland Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon / 2016
The Book Show, SVA Gramercy Gallery, New York, NY / 2016
GONE, SVA Gramercy Gallery, New York, NY / 2016
The Human Impacts Institute's Creative Climate Awards, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office, NY / 2014
Generations IX: The Red/Pink Show, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY / 2013